Here’s the four finalists from VentureNursery’s fourth batch

VentureNursery has announced the list of startups that will soon be graduating from its fourth batch. Started at the end of January, the four selected startups have undergone an extensive intense mentoring by VentureNursery’s board of exerts in addition to other infrastructural support – over the last six weeks.

Here’s a quick look at the startups:

With its in-house data mining technology, InvenZone aims to make the intellectual knowledge discovery an easy task for scholars and researchers. The idea to help researchers save a significant amount of time they waste during the execution of research.

SeekSherpa, a mobile marketplace for hyper local travel information, SeekSherpa aims at connecting travelers with locals. It allows for the transfer of micro information points between like-minded Sherpas.

Supply Chain Exchange is a web based interface which allows transporters to dispose their services and the shippers to procure them in real time. The idea is to optimize and fast track the operations and seamlessly interlink the freight requirements of the shippers with the service offerings of the transporters.

TheLifeCard is a loyalty program for Indian small and medium retailers by incorporating features like modules to increase social media presence, referral systems and analytics. The startup uses automated Big Data systems to deliver solutions to retailers.

According to Apoorv Ranjan Sharma, Executive Vice President, VentureNursery, over 250 applications were received from 25 cities for its fourth batch. “While majority of the applications were from Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore, nearly 20% of them were from tier-II cities like Ahmedabad and Chandigarh,” he added.

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